International Journal of Advanced Research and Development

Authors
Dr. Anita Chhatwal

Abstract
A bibliometric study is generally used to measure the literature output on any given subject. Bibliometric analysis use data on numbers and authors of scientific publications and on articles and the citations therein (and in patents) to measure the “output” of individuals/research teams, institutions, and countries, to identify national and international networks, and to map the development of new (multi-disciplinary) fields. Similar approach has been adopted in this paper to identify the global literature output on Dalit literature. The research data used for the study has been retrieved from ‘Scopus’ database source. The study in hand attempts to identify the bibliometric characteristics of the research publications from SCOPUS Database during the study period 1969-2017 (48 years). A total of 876 publications have been identified. Bibliometric techniques have been used to analyze the data. The collected data was classified by using Excel Spreadsheet. The results show that the total publication output (876) shows a healthy trend in citation on yearly basis, the articles (56.8%) are the most prominent publications, most prolific author is H. Teltumbde with 32 articles and ‘S. K. Rai with 10 articles. The most productive institution is Jawaharlal Nehru University which produced 4.57% publications. ‘Economic and Political Weekly’ (EPW) is the highly productive journal with 206 (23.52%) publications. India tops the list of countries with publication output being 364 (41.55%) publications.